This document discusses teaching reading comprehension in reading and writing workshops. It emphasizes teaching students to be readers who can infer, imagine, question, monitor, synthesize information, use schema, determine importance, and see themselves as readers. It stresses teaching the reader, not just the book, and considering the different types of readers needed for fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, history, and science texts. The document contrasts thinking about fiction as stories of life versus nonfiction as book stories, and emphasizes identifying the big idea of a whole text as well as the main ideas at the section level.